Local media report that one of Carrefour's Shanghai stores faces punishment by the Shanghai Food and Medicine Supervision Department for selling expired pork products.
At the beginning of this month, the Shanghai Food and Medicine Supervision Department received an alert from a consumer saying that there was expired pork on sale at the Carrefour Quyang store.
Investigators went to the store and found 153 boxes of expired pork chops with labels still saying "fresh pork". They immediately sealed the boxes, and then ordered the store to try to recollect the pork that had already been sold.
However, when they arrived back at the store on April 3, they found that the boxes that contained the sealed pork had been illegally unsealed by the staff of the store.
Concerned government departments are conducting further investigations and a punishment, in the form of a fine, should be announced soon.
